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sin·gu·lar

 (sĭng′gyə-lər)
adj.
1. Being only one; individual; lone: a singular tree in the meadow.
2. Being the only one of a kind; unique: "Our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared" (Barack Obama).
3.
a. Being beyond what is ordinary, especially in being exceptionally good; remarkable: "Dinners with [our two friends] became the evenings we looked forward to with singular pleasure" (David Halberstam).
b. Strange or unusual: "I accordingly obeyed forthwith what I still considered a very singular summons" (Edgar Allan Poe).
4. Grammar
a. Of, relating to, or being a noun, pronoun, or adjective denoting a single person or thing or several entities considered as a single unit.
b. Of, relating to, or being a verb expressing the action or state of a single subject.
5. Logic Of or relating to the specific as distinguished from the general; individual.
n. Grammar
1. The singular number or a form designating it.
2. A word having a singular number.

[Middle English singuler, from Old French, from Latin singulāris, from singulus, single; see single.]

sin′gu·lar·ly adv.
sin′gu·lar·ness n.
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Adv.1.singularly - in a singular manner or to a singular degree; "Lord T. was considered singularly licentious even for the courts of Russia and Portugal; he acquired three wives and fourteen children during his Portuguese embassy alone"
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singularly

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singularly

adverb
In a manner or to a degree that is unusual:
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Translations

singularly

[ˈsɪŋgjʊləlɪ] ADV (= extraordinarily) → extraordinariamente, singularmente
he was singularly unhelpfulno se mostró dispuesto a ayudar en absoluto
a singularly inappropriate remarkuna observación de lo más inoportuno
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singularly

[ˈsɪŋgjʊrli] advsingulièrementsingular noun n (GRAMMAR)indénombrable m
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singularly

adv
außerordentlich; appropriate, unattractive(ganz) besonders, überaus; he was singularly unimpresseder war ganz und gar nicht beeindruckt; he has singularly failed to achieve thiser ist mit seinem Versuch, dies zu erreichen, vollkommen gescheitert; hey are singularly lacking in originalityes fehlt ihnen ganz und gar an Originalität
(dated, = strangely) → sonderbar, eigenartig
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singularly

[ˈsɪŋgjʊləlɪ] adv (frm) → singolarmente
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As they rested under its shade, one of the Travelers said to the other, "What a singularly useless tree is the Plane!
"Comrades of the thunder and companions of death, I cannot but regard it as singularly fortunate that we who by conviction and sympathy are designated by nature as the champions of that fairest of her products, the white metal, should also, by a happy chance, be engaged mostly in the business of mining it.
I could not find out how this had arisen, but, singularly enough, it created much sympathy for Mrs.
He was active, ready and obliging, of dauntless courage, and singularly open and fearless in the expression of his feelings.
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The jester was commonly called a fool, but the poets and romancers have ever delighted to represent him as a singularly wise and witty person.
Our lamps threw over this place a sort of clear twilight that singularly elongated the shadows on the ground.
As to his voice, prayers, sobs, and imprecations had changed it so that at times it was of a singularly penetrating sweetness, and at others rough and almost hoarse.
Three hundred years and more of a singularly varied and vivacious sort of history!--it was a bold thing to undertake; and Dr.
Its immense area was singularly adapted to the purpose.
He seemed, indeed, singularly fond of his own company--or, as the PERSONNEL of the Advance expressed it, "grossly addicted to evil associations." But then it should be said in justice to the stranger that the PERSONNEL was himself of a too convivial disposition fairly to judge one differently gifted, and had, moreover, experienced a slight rebuff in an effort at an "interview."